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For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

An armed disciplined body is, in its essence, dangerous to liberty; undisciplined, it is ruinous to society.

Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression.

Finally we must have courage and self-confidence to cling to our own methods and conceptions of human society. After all, the greatest danger that can befall us in coping with this problem of Soviet communism, is that we shall allow ourselves to become like those with whom we are coping.

Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers.

Freedom, too, the long-sought, we still seek,--the freedom of life and limb, the freedom to work and think, the freedom to love and aspire.

This, then, is the end of his striving: to be a co-worker in the kingdom of culture, to escape both death and isolation, to husband and use his best powers and his latent genius.

It is in periods like this that it behooves the people to be most watchful of those to whom they have intrusted power.

It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.

Free labour has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored.

Only the BLACK WOMAN can say “when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.”

My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

The question is whether a statute authorizing such proceedings in restraint of publication is consistent with the conception of the liberty of the press as historically conceived and guaranteed.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will

The spirit of personal independence in the women of to-day is sure proof that a change has come.

To teach, to rule, to make, to decorate, to distribute,—these are not sex-functions: they are race-functions.

The fact is that old age is respectable just as long as it asserts itself, maintains its proper rights, and is not enslaved to any one.

What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people.

Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State.

To me there was no question so important as the emancipation of women from the dogmas of the past, political, religious, and social.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense.

If I have set my admiration on the poor body, I have given myself up to be a slave; if on my poor possessions, I also make myself a slave.

Sometimes we fail to hear or heed these voices of freedom because to us the privilege of our freedom is such an old, old story.